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Starting a blog seemed like a great idea at the time – you were full of ideas and couldn’t wait to create content. But a few months have passed, the inspiration has dried up and your blog is gathering dust.

Jill Dovey, a commercial lawyer at Muckle LLP who specialises in IT, examines the growing technology sector in the North East, the importance of organisations protecting themselves from data breaches, and the new general data protection regulations (GDPR) that will have an impact on all organisations when they come into force in 2018.

RMT Accountants & Business Advisors has become the first North East firm of its type to complete a high level cyber security accreditation. The Gosforth-based practice has obtained the Cyber Essentials PLUS standard, which involves an independent assessment of participants’ online security provisions across five different areas, as well as simulated hacking and ‘phishing’ attacks on its systems.

Google are now only showing 7 ads per page. In an increase on the original 3 ad results at the top of the page, there will now be 4 ads shown above the organic results and 3 below. In a desktop departure that is now representative of their mobile results, this is the biggest change to the search engine results pages for quite some time, but what does it mean for you?